Cigarette igniter



May 15, 1928. 1,669,843

' G. Y. SAKAMOTO CIGARETTE IGNITER Filed Jan. 13, 1926 F 5.. mv NTOR Gauge X rfamofo A TORNEY l PATENT OFFICE...

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/ Application filed IanuarylS, 192a. Serial m. 80,885.

This invention relates to cigarettes; and

its main object is to combine with an article of this character a match whereby the ignition of the tobacco is facilitated.

6 Another object of the invention is to afforda combined cigarette and match whereby the match is readily detached after performing its function.

A further object of the invention is to provide means attachable to an ordinary cigarette for i iting the same which means will also afior an efl'ective cigarette holder.

The invention consists in the novel construction, ada tation and combination of devices hereina ter described and claimed. In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an elevationalview of a cigarette embodyin the invention in its form now preferred y me; Fig. 2 is a view of the same, the cigarette being shown in elevation, the holding and lighting means therefor shown in longitudinal section taken in a plane at right angles tot-hat in which it is illustrated in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an ex panded view of the cigarette holding and lighting device shown in the preceding views; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the device shown in Fig. 3 illustrated as it would appear when applied upon a cigarette, which is represented by dotted lines.

Fig. 5 is aside elevational view of a cigarette to which is a plied a modified form of the invention; an Fig. 6 is plan view of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a perspective view representing a cigarette box or container provided with a prepared surface with which a match of the safety type may be ignited.

In carrying out my invention I provide a safety-match in the nature of a strip 10 of paper, or other suitable material, disposed along a side of a cigarette 11 of ordina iiy construction.

he strip 10 is arranged longitudinally of .the cigarette and to have an end 12 of the 5 strip protrude beyond an end 13 of the cigarette.

Such protruding end is provided with a head 14 of a substance, or composition of substances, such as are employed with safety no matches and is ignitible on a surface which is especially repared for that purpose.

Surfaces o t is character are provided upon the box containers of the safety;

matches of commerce; but in this instance,

is provided, desirably, as at 15 in Fig. 7, upon a side'of a cigarette container B.

The strip 10 is integral with and extends at right angles from a relativel wide portion 17 which is ada ted to e wrapped around the other end 0 the ci arette to provide a. protective guard or hol er suitable to be held in the mouth of a smoker. The portion 17 of the device or attachment above described is of a width to afford overlappin extremities 18 (Fig. 4) which are pasted together by means of an adhesive material m icated by 19 in Fig. 3, applied to one of such extremities.

The strip 10 is rendered separable from the portion 17 at the juncture therebetween by the provision of a scoring or a line of perforations 20 as shown.

After being used to ignite the cigarette, the match--constituted of the strip 10 and its head 14ma be detached from the portion 17 leaving the latter to serve as a holder in the mouth of the smoker.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is shown a modified form of match comprising a strip 10 of paper or an e uivalent material provided with an igniti le head 14 In this construction the match is secured to the cigarette paper by means of an adhesive 22 applied to the latter in proximity of its outer end 13 ,The head end of the match projects beyond the referred to end of the cigarette 11 After the match, shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is used to light the cigarette, the unburned portion is removed by the operator grasping the free end 10 of the match to ull the same away from the cigarette, there y tearmg away the paper of the latter substantially as indicated by the broken line X in The principal advanta e of the present invention is that it provides means to overcome difliculties' smokers have hitherto experienced; first, in not having a match at hand with which to light his cigarette and, second, when matches are available, the difficulty in utilizing them in wind currents to effect the ignition of the'cigarettes. The last mentioned trouble frequently occurs when traveling on boats and automobiles.

The positioningof the match head beyond the cigarette end which is to be lighted ensures that the flame produced byethe ignited match will be located so as to drawn 2. A cigarette having a holder member encirclin one end thereof and rovided with a mate element inte ral with said holder member and held by e latter alongside of the cigarette, said match element having in close proximity to said holder member a weakened section to facilitate the se aration of the match from the holder mem er.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 15th day of December 1925.

GEORGE Y. SAKAMOTO. 

